Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oceans [Hardcover]

Section IBackground Chapter 1 Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar Chapter 2 Radar Scattering of Ocean Surfaces with Anisotropic Ocean Spectrum Using NMM3D Simulations Chapter 3 Sensitivity Analysis of Bistatic Scattering from Sea Surface at L-band Section IICoast Zone and Man-Made Object Detection Chapter 4 Oil Fields Observation Using Polarimetric SAR Chapter 5 Oil Spills Detection and Classification with Fully and Compact Polarimetric SAR Chapter 6 Ocean Surface Pollutant Monitoring and Trajectory Simulation Chapter 7 Exposed Intertidal Flats Monitoring by Polarimetric SAR Chapter 8 SAR Detection of Ocean Bottom Topography Chapter 9 Ship Characterization and Analyses in Sentinel-1 Imagery Based on a Large and Open Dataset Section IIIOcean Environment Monitoring Chapter 10 SAR Remote Sensing of Internal Solitary Waves in the Ocean Chapter 11 Joint Retrieval of Directional Ocean Wave Spectra from SAR and RAR Chapter 12 Mediterranean Eddy Statistics Based on Multiple SAR Imagery Chapter 13 Mode-2 Internal Solitary Waves in the Ocean Section IVMarine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observations Chapter 14 Oceanographic Aspect of Tropical Cyclone Wind and Wave Remote Sensing Chapter 15 Application of SAR-Derived Sea Surface Winds in Data Assimilation Chapter 16 The Effect of Rain on Radar Backscattering from the Ocean

The oceans cover approximately 71% of Earths surface, 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earths water. Since the first launch of SEASAT satellite in 1978, an increasing number of SAR satellites have or will become available, such as the European Space Agencys ERS-1/-2, ENVISAT, and Sentinel-1 serielӀ